So did YouTube really change the way it counts the views now?

    When BTS had a comeback with ytc, it had subpar views on first 24 hours on YouTube. I thought it had something do with the song being boring, slow and army's were making excuses for the low amount of views. Now that blackpink came out with a video for rfl full song, the views are kinda disappointing. Even ice cream zepto video of blackpink was gaining Better views than this in 2020.


    So did YouTube really did change the views or were army's making excuses for ytc since it flopped on YouTube? Discuss.

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    Well if both groups have reduced views then it either means YouTube did change something (need to compare to western artists as well to make sure) or simply the songs are shit and fans don’t like them as much.

    If Blackpink's title track MV doesn't cross 60M+ views, then we can tell for sure something is up.

    how many zeoptta got in 2020?? Its not bad getting 19m views overall on 1st day

    1. rfl wasn't promoted at all by yg on sns, rosé only posted an ig story half a day before and jisoo, few hrs ago before the drop


    2. 75% of the song is already heard by fans and non fans alike


    3. This is a special track, a lot of bp fans in many platforms didn't even know about it since yg interns never posted about it on bp/yg sns accounts and not everyone follows pubg sns. This is not the real cb at all.


    4. The mv was released in all the pubg channels (they have multiple yt channels which are country specified channels) along with bp channel which resulted in the views division


    5. I can't speak for bts, but I reckon dropping a ballad was one of the reasons for low views.


    6. Yes youtube in general gets lesser views now but RFL is not anyway a metric to determine the ability of bp's views for when they drop the actual cb.

    u're such hypocrites lmao when it comes to bts it's always armys making excuses but when it's your favs it's a real problem?

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    Well if both groups have reduced views then it either means YouTube did change something (need to compare to western artists as well to make sure) or simply the songs are shit and fans don’t like them as much.

    Probably closer to the second option. Plus these comebacks were released under different circumstances from a normal comeback so it's expected that the fandoms didn't treat them as such.

    it seems like you guys are deliberately ignoring blinks telling you this is an unpromoted, unofficial track just so you can push the narrative that the pinks are not doing well.

    rfl got more views than ice cream zepeto.


    this isn't an official comeback so fans didn't stream as hard as they normally would. also, there were no goals set from the fanbases so there was no outer motivation to stream. the true indicator will be the actual comeback in august

    Some of y’all RFL is not a comeback it ain’t even on streaming services only YouTube

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    rfl got more views than ice cream zepeto.


    this isn't an official comeback so fans didn't stream as hard as they normally would. also, there were no goals set from the fanbases so there was no outer motivation to stream. the true indicator will be the actual comeback in august

    I don't even remember how much views that zepeto video got at the first 24h


    The song is old af and u can see blinks weren't trying bc the pace the liked went, any blink can hope on yt before this and find rfl there


    BP dance practice get 20m views average for dance practice, those got the real memebrs on them so the ai MV getting near the number just follow BP typical count view

    Blinks always use the same excuses they made fun of other groups for.

    YouTube has no conspiracy against KPop.


    BTS got reduced views because their comeback was tired, bland and uninspiring.


    Blackpink are getting lower views because their song is an album reject which was given to a mobile game for promotional purposes. They aren't in the MV and as far as I can tell they are not bothering to promote it.

    Ytc is an slow ass song that was never going to smash on youtube and bp's rfl is not an actual comeback. Let's stop putting out excuses for the 4th when gap is still so big

    are you kidding me

    they will kill it when we had the actual real members on it

    this is just a thrill

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    u're such hypocrites lmao when it comes to bts it's always armys making excuses but when it's your favs it's a real problem?

    but how do you compare a totally promoted comeback with a new song to a cf song that was leaked and wasn't promoted by the main artists?

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